We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.